The official, who asked for anonymity to discuss legislative strategy, said the debt limit "was never used as a policy leverage tool before".
Britain has spent the past four decades in a soft power approach, using market-friendly trade policies as a means of broader policy leverage, including using aid to help countries diversify their trade.
Inevitably, said James Castle, a longtime American businessman in Indonesia and until recently the leader of the American Chamber of Commerce here, "the policy leverage of the United States as the great market is sure to decline".
In his speech this month, delivered to party officials nationwide by teleconference, Mr. Li, the prime minister, said, "If we place excessive reliance on government steering and policy leverage to stimulate growth, that will be difficult to sustain and could even produce new problems and risks".
Housing policies should not be considered merely in their economic sense; it should not be neglected as important social policy leverage in crime prevention and social inclusion.
Federally funded R&D is perhaps the strongest point of policy leverage we have, measured in dollar terms.
Focusing on Perkins loans sidesteps a major limit on the federal government's policy leverage in higher education: Pell grants, which constitute the largest federal aid program, go straight to students, so conditioning that aid doesn't create direct incentives for universities.
Our policy leverages resources for children through advocacy focused on: furthering the realization of children and women's rights; scaling up key basic social services and social protection interventions favor of the most vulnerable.
Erin Thornton is the Executive Director for Every Mother Counts where she is responsible for guiding policy engagement, leveraging strategic partnerships and providing viewers with meaningful opportunities to learn and engage on the issue.
Rather than assume Washington can change the Islamists' ideology, the task force said, policy can leverage Egyptian behavior.
